Dec 15, 2015 08:06 PM
http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-t...de-1311235
EXCERPT: You only have to look at Darth Vader's mechanised limbs to see how tech and evil are intertwined. [...] "He's more machine now than man," Obi-Wan Kenobi observes in The Return of the Jedi. "Twisted and Evil."
Star Wars doesn't exist in a vacuum, and real-world tech teeters between right and wrong. [...] there comes a stage where they're used by someone, somewhere, for a nefarious purpose. Disposable cameras can be repurposed as stun guns. Walkie-talkies are used to orchestrate terrorist attacks. And for every scientist at a human genome-mapping supercomputer, there's a hacker syphoning funds from someone's bank account.
From nuclear bombs to IEDs, and 3D-printed guns to BBM-orchestrated riots, one thing's for certain: researching this piece has put us on a lot of lists....
COVERED: 1. The cotton gin sparks the American Civil War; 2. Einstein's theory of relativity goes atomic; 3. Casio F-91W: the terrorist's watch of choice?; 4. Cheap mobiles trigger IEDs; 5. Wanna organise a riot? Check out BBM!; 6. Annie get your 3D printed gun; 7. Conning Justin Bieber's Twitter fans; 8. Model aircraft become flying death machines; 9. AI: due to become evil right about now
EXCERPT: You only have to look at Darth Vader's mechanised limbs to see how tech and evil are intertwined. [...] "He's more machine now than man," Obi-Wan Kenobi observes in The Return of the Jedi. "Twisted and Evil."
Star Wars doesn't exist in a vacuum, and real-world tech teeters between right and wrong. [...] there comes a stage where they're used by someone, somewhere, for a nefarious purpose. Disposable cameras can be repurposed as stun guns. Walkie-talkies are used to orchestrate terrorist attacks. And for every scientist at a human genome-mapping supercomputer, there's a hacker syphoning funds from someone's bank account.
From nuclear bombs to IEDs, and 3D-printed guns to BBM-orchestrated riots, one thing's for certain: researching this piece has put us on a lot of lists....
COVERED: 1. The cotton gin sparks the American Civil War; 2. Einstein's theory of relativity goes atomic; 3. Casio F-91W: the terrorist's watch of choice?; 4. Cheap mobiles trigger IEDs; 5. Wanna organise a riot? Check out BBM!; 6. Annie get your 3D printed gun; 7. Conning Justin Bieber's Twitter fans; 8. Model aircraft become flying death machines; 9. AI: due to become evil right about now